Emma: Being a naturally social person, it is not difficult for me to make friends. However, there are people who find it harder to open up and welcome new friendships. Sometimes these shy and reserved people are just in need of a shoulder to cry on. A confidant, someone to listen to their problems. But it's important that our purpose is to help these people, to make their lives better. Not to gossip about their problems. Making them spill their secrets should be for their benefit, not ours. I'm Emma Woodhouse, and I will find out what is troubling Jane Fairfax, without gossiping. I don't want to say that Jane Fairfax is my new project, because that makes me sound like a certain politicians future wife, but she needs my help. It must be terrible to live with that burden, that secrecy about everything, people gossiping and speculating about you all the time. Why does Jane insist she doesn't know who sent the laptop? Who sends such an expensive gift without a note? Is it because this person wasn't supposed to be sending gifts to Jane? 

Harriet: Emma are you ready for me?

Emma: Yup. Okay, time to work. Tell me, how's the auction going, did you send out the e-vites? 

Harriet: So far we have 200 confirmed guests.

Emma: That's amazing! 

Harriet: And most of them replied within minutes of sending out the e-vite! Mr. Churchill teased it on twitter, so they were expecting our email.

Emma: He's so dedicated, it's refreshing when someone shows enthusiasm for what we do here. 

Harriet: Oh, I was talking to Jane about that this morning. 

Emma: You were talking to Jane?

Harriet: We were getting coffee in the kitchen, and I offered to help her figure out her new computer. Is it wrong for me to be friends with Jane? I know you don't like her but...

Emma: Who said I didn't like her?

Harriet: Well... Well you...

Emma: Of course I like Jane! In fact, I'm trying to help her with something. 

Harriet: Oh with what? Can I help? 

Emma: Bring up her Twitter profile on your tablet. Work, picture from a bus, work, bored at the beach, Ah ha! Who are the Dixons?

Harriet: Sarah Dixon, that's her best friend from Oxford. 

Emma: College friends are hard to leave behind, she must miss her a lot.

Harriet: And since she's been here she had to miss her friend's wedding. 

Emma: She missed her best friend's wedding? Why? Why couldn't she stay in London a little bit longer? It's not like she was doing a lot the first few nights she was here. 

Harriet: She missed her aunt?
Emma: Maddy Bates would have been happy with a lengthy email. There's something more here... She trains with the Dixons, runs marathons with the Dixons... Harriet! have you noticed that she always talks about the Dixons, plural?

Harriet: Sarah and Peter Dixon, that's two people. 

Emma: Why never anything with just Sarah, Annie's married and we still do things just the two of us. Well not lately, which I should fix, but usually. 

Harriet: Maybe she's good friends with both of them. 

Emma: Then why not go to the wedding? Oh! Oh! I know who sent the laptop!

Harriet: Who? 

Emma: Well if Jane wants to hide it, I am not one to tell everybody. 

Harriet: But what is Jane hiding? 

Frank: Well look who's hiding in her office. 

Emma: Frank! You're here. 

Frank: Of course I am! Don't tell me you've already given up on me. 

Emma: You did flake on our photo shoot, for a haircut? 

Frank: Best foot forward, as you always say, can blame me for wanting to get a higher bid? 

Harriet: I don't think that will be a problem Mr. Churchill.

Frank: Thank you Harriet, so, how's the planning going? 

Harriet: So far all the guests on your list have already confirmed their attendance.

Frank: Fantastic. And did you manage to get the practical Ms. Fairfax for the auction?

Emma: We did. When she saw that even Alex was participating, she ran out of excuses.

Frank: Boom. Seems everything is going perfectly. Isn't it, Emma Woodhouse? 

(Harriet's Phone Beeps)

Harriet: Oops! Sorry! Jane needs help with her new laptop, I'll be right back. 

Emma: Why are you smiling? 

Frank: I'm not, why are you smiling?

Emma: I'm just very proud of Harriet. She's learned so much about computers that now she can help Jane with her new laptop. 

Frank: Oh, so you finally got her a new computer. 

Emma: It wasn't from us, it was a gift.

Frank: A gift? From whom? 

Emma: She wouldn't say, but whoever it was knew exactly what Jane needed. 

Frank: Is that so?

Emma: I wonder why they waited until now to send it? Jane's been here for almost a month. 

Frank: Perhaps they didn't know of her need for it until very recently. 

Emma: Who could know about her need for a laptop? Who does she correspond with often enough to know this? 

Frank: Her aunt maybe. 

Emma: Oh, please, even Jane admitted that Maddy couldn't afford it. I think this gift came all the way from London. 

Frank: (In British accent) Did the laptop say something snotty to you? Does it pre-schedule a tea time? 

Emma: (Laughing) okay, you can be ridiculous if you want to but I say it in her eyes, and I know that you're thinking the same thing that I am. 

Frank: I will probably suspect the same thing you suspect as soon as you tell me what you're suspecting.

Emma: Why did Jane leave London? 

Frank: I understand that her project finished early. 

Emma: And her coming here happened right before her best friend getting married. 

Frank: Going away gift? 

Emma: Well if it's a gift from Sarah Dixon why keep it a secret? 

Frank: Am I sensing a scandalous story, Emma Woodhouse? 

Emma: I am not saying that Jane or Peter Dixon did anything wrong... but they were all very close. 

Frank: Are you sure it can't be from anybody else? 

Emma: Those are the only friends she ever talks or tweets about. 

Frank: The evidence seems solid. 

Emma: I've done my research. 

Frank: Now I feel that I need to see this amazing gift with my own eyes!  

Emma: See if you can get anything else out of Jane. 

Frank: I'll be back with my discoveries. 

Emma: Okay, so sometimes a little gossip isn't so bad. It's fun when you can share your findings. And, if you can share with someone that offers to help you in your investigation, all the better. And remember, it's all done for the good of your new friend.